Hand-card



(No Model.)

D. PENDERGAST.

HAND CARD.

No. 392,287. v Patented Nov. 6, 1888.

N4 PETERS, Phnloiillwgnphor, Washington. D. C.

UNITE-D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL PENDERGAST, OF KENNEBUNK, MAINE.

HAND- CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters liatent No. 392,287, dated November 6, 1888.

' Application filed November 11, 1887. Serial No. 254,932. (No model.)

To all whom it 17mg concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL PENDERGAST, ofKennebunk,in the county ofYork and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in HandGards, of which the following is a full,clear,and exact description.

This invention relates to hand implements for stripping cards, and particularly to the manner of attachment of the card to the-back, heretofore done by tacking or nailing it thereto.

The invention consists, in substance, ofjaws severally constructed to engage the card and its back,in combination with means to tighten or draw up the card and secure it to the back, all substantially as hereinafter described.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a view of the workingface, and Fig. 2 is a view of the back, of the hand card-stripper having its card secured in accordance with this invention. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line 3 3, Figs. 1 and 2. Figs. 4 and 5 are views of a modification, as will hereinafter appear.

In the drawings, A is the card, and B is the back for the card, having a handle, 0, all as well known.

D and E are two jaws extending along the length of the card and its back at each edge F thereof. Each jaw D E has teeth a along one of its edges to engage the leather sheet receiving and holding the teeth of the card. The jaw D has bent ear-pieces H along its length to embrace the edge of the back and to overlap the face of the back opposite to that receiving the card. The jaw E also has bent earpieces J along its length, each receiving a thumb binding-screw, K, which, turned up against the edge F of the back, draw the card, through the jaw carrying them, tightly across the back and bind it between the opposite edges thereof, as is obvious without further explanation.

In lieu of thumb binding -screws, as described, cam binding and swinging levers M, Figs. 4 and 5, may be used, and again obviously other well-known forms of devices suit able to bind the parts to the back may be used.

The jaws are continuous from end to end of the back, and preferably are applied along the side edges thereof. Each of the jaws, however, may be made in separate sections separately applied, and, again, the jaws may be applied at the ends in lieu of at the sides.

The advantages of the present mode of se curing the card to its back are obvious without particular mention.

Having thus described my inventi0n,what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. A hand stripper for card clothing composed of a back, B, and a card, 0, and clamps D E at the opposite edges of the back and card and engaging both card and back, and fastened to the back, substantially as described.

2. A hand-stripper for card-clothing composed of a back, B and a card, 0, clamps D E at the opposite edges of the back and card, and having teeth to engage the card and earpieces to engage the back, in combination with screws to secure the clamps, and thereby to bind the card to the back, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL PENDERGAST.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN PENDERGAS'I, ALBERT W. BROWN. 

